Posts tagged "kara mulder"

Once, I said I wanted to move to New York. I put in a base transfer for JFK and thought that Brooklyn would be the best place for me to create a home. Right now, that living in Brooklyn idea sounds awful as my fingers struggle to type, frozen in place due to the frigid cold. This California girl is a light weight when comes to freezing temperatures, among other things....

7 Steps To Create An Adventurous Life Can I make an embarrassing confession? Really, I know it’s not something I should feel embarrassed about, but with this little known fact, I am a bit quiet. It’s private and personal and not who you see me to be now. There is more to the story than I will mention here in this blog (for the rest, you will have to wait...

January 5th. I'm five days late with a newsletter that was due and supposed to be published. I have some freelance proposal that is due tonight. I missed blogging on Friday because I thought it was Thursday. I have schedules to make for the editors, bags to pack and unpack, meetings, planning for trips, errands, queries to send to literary agents, iMovies to edit, and content marketing to create. And,...

As the train clicks and rocks its way past buildings colored with Japanese characters, and trees dusted with the yellow, orange, and red hues of Fall, I sit quietly, contemplating how life discoveries have this way of sneaking up on one. At least these type of understandings have this way of sneaking up on me. I never learn what I expect to, but I always learn what I need. I...

Last night, I was driving "home," smiling to myself over the fun day that the sun had set to. I was grateful for simply being in Southern California. It's the beginning of eighteen days off for me; eighteen much needed days away from that Dreamliner. I am staying in the same timezone for the most part, and my feet are firmly (as my definition goes) planted on the ground. I've been...

I started this essay as content for my book. It turned into something that needed to be published here. So, here it is. -Kara On Wanting Sick. I feel it again. I don’t know if it is the antibiotic that I have been taking recently, or the jet lag, or possibly the fact that I ate an extra handful of animal crackers with almond butter along with the tortilla veggie wrap...

The bartender said this as he raised his can of RedBull and nodded ever so slightly in my direction. I smiled, tilting my head as if his title for me was a surprise. A 'Pretty Drifter?' Was this who I was when people met me, or what was assumed when I stuttered over the question of, "Where do you live?" I know that the people asking are expecting a simple,...

Packing. Suitcases. Carry-ons. For a flight attendant, these aren't accessories, but a necessities. I've written about my life in a bag, have posted YouTube videos of me stuffing, and squeezing my belongings into a black roller board, and have commented on how I can never separate myself form the luggage life. I always think that I will get better at packing, and maybe I have, but because I have, I...

I arrived back in Ft Lauderdale Monday this week...or was it Sunday? What day was the 12th? It doesn't matter. I lived long days, and short days. International flying plays havoc on sleep, life, days, weeks...that's simply the way that it is. The bird sitting pretty on a gray day at Arlanda Airport- Sweden At any rate, I returned from the first international trip with my new employer. Eeeek! I'm international...

For those that have kept asking, or for those that have been on the edge of their seats wondering, or for those that simply do not care who I am flying for after quitting my job, I am about to tell you. The day has finally arrived. I am here to spill the secret- announce my new airline, show off the fancy new uniform, and unveil the adventures. This is the post...